> > So right now the "Volume Use" start time is set by the start time of > > the first job stored on it. On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 10:04:47PM +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: > I haven't looked at the code, but I believe it is based on the FirstWritten > which is the time (if I am not mistaken) when the Volume first had data > written to it (i.e. just labeling it doesn't count). ... > No, I don't believe that is correct. The FirstWritten should be the time the > first non-label byte is written to the Volume. The whole process is rather > complicated though. Nope. Here's the volume in question that started it all llist volumes output:
MediaId: 4 VolumeName: clients-0004 Slot: 0 PoolId: 5 MediaType: File_clients FirstWritten: 2006-09-10 11:05:01 LastWritten: 2006-09-10 23:26:29 LabelDate: 2006-09-10 11:05:01 FirstWritten says 11:05, but the volume wasn't Recycled until 11 hours later, and first written another half hour later (I walked away and forgot to mount the device...) 10-Sep 11:05 backup0-dir: Start Backup JobId 258,Job=hostname.client.com.2006-09-10_11.05.00 10-Sep 11:05 backup0-dir: Max configured use duration exceeded. Marking Volume "clients-0003" as Used. 10-Sep 11:05 backup0-dir: Pruning oldest volume "clients-0004" 10-Sep 11:05 backup0-dir: Pruning oldest volume "clients-0004" 10-Sep 11:05 backup0-dir: Pruning oldest volume "clients-0004" 10-Sep 11:05 backup0-sd: Job hostname.client.com.2006-09-10_11.05.00 waiting. Cannot find any appendable volumes. Please use the "label" command to create a new Volume for: Storage: "Dev_clients" (/bacula/clients) Media type: File_clients Pool: clients_Pool 10-Sep 12:05 backup0-dir: Pruning oldest volume "clients-0004" 10-Sep 12:05 backup0-sd: Job hostname.client.com.2006-09-10_11.05.00 waiting. Cannot find any appendable volumes. Please use the "label" command to create a new Volume for: Storage: "Dev_clients" (/bacula/clients) Media type: File_clients Pool: clients_Pool 10-Sep 14:05 backup0-dir: Pruning oldest volume "clients-0004" 10-Sep 14:05 backup0-sd: Job hostname.client.com.2006-09-10_11.05.00 waiting. Cannot find any appendable volumes. Please use the "label" command to create a new Volume for: Storage: "Dev_clients" (/bacula/clients) Media type: File_clients Pool: clients_Pool 10-Sep 18:05 backup0-dir: Pruning oldest volume "clients-0004" 10-Sep 18:05 backup0-sd: Job hostname.client.com.2006-09-10_11.05.00 waiting. Cannot find any appendable volumes. Please use the "label" command to create a new Volume for: Storage: "Dev_clients" (/bacula/clients) Media type: File_clients Pool: clients_Pool 10-Sep 22:08 backup0-dir: Recycled volume "clients-0004" 10-Sep 22:08 backup0-sd: Recycled volume "clients-0004" on device "Dev_clients" (/bacula/clients), all previous data lost. 10-Sep 23:09 backup0-dir: Bacula 1.38.5 (18Jan06): 10-Sep-2006 23:09:58 JobId: 258 Job: hostname.client.com.2006-09-10_11.05.00 Backup Level: Incremental, since=2006-09-09 11:05:01 Client: "hostname.client.com-fd" i386-portbld- freebsd6.1,freebsd,6.1-STABLE FileSet: "hostname.client.com-fileset" 2006-07-09 09:03:40 Pool: "clients_Pool" Storage: "Disk_clients" Scheduled time: 10-Sep-2006 11:05:00 Start time: 10-Sep-2006 11:05:01 End time: 10-Sep-2006 23:09:58 Priority: 10 FD Files Written: 699,861 SD Files Written: 699,861 ...etc Sorry, I don't have time to investigate the algorithm, but I did have time to show the evidence as to what is happening here... -- Jo Rhett senior geek SVcolo : Silicon Valley Colocation ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users